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Ordinal data analysis is an interesting direction in machine learning. It mainly deals with data for which only the relationships `$<$', `$=$', `$>$' between pairs of points are known. We do an attempt of formalizing structures behind…

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We build information geometry for a partially ordered set of variables and define the orthogonal decomposition of information theoretic quantities. The natural connection between information geometry and order theory leads to efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mahito Sugiyama , Hiroyuki Nakahara , Koji Tsuda

We investigate the pertinence of methods from algebraic topology for text data analysis. These methods enable the development of mathematically-principled isometric-invariant mappings from a set of vectors to a document embedding, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Paul Michel , Abhilasha Ravichander , Shruti Rijhwani

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Topological measurements are increasingly being accepted as an important tool for quantifying complex structures. In many applications, these structures can be expressed as nodal domains of real-valued functions and are obtained only…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Konstantin Mischaikow , Thomas Wanner

In this paper we develop some combinatorial models for continuous spaces. In this spirit we study the approximations of continuous spaces by graphs, molecular spaces and coordinate matrices. We define the dimension on a discrete space by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Alexander V. Evako

The incredible variety of galaxy shapes cannot be summarized by human defined discrete classes of shapes without causing a possibly large loss of information. Dictionary learning and sparse coding allow us to reduce the high dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-01 Giuseppe Vinci , Peter Freeman , Jeffrey Newman , Larry Wasserman , Christopher Genovese

Any symmetric affinity function $w: V\times V \to \mathbb{R}_+$ defined on a discrete set $V$ induces Euclidean space structure on $V$. In particular, an undirected graph specified by an affinity (or adjacency) matrix can be considered as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-29 Ph. Blanchard , D. Volchenkov

We develop and test a novel unsupervised algorithm for word sense induction and disambiguation which uses topological data analysis. Typical approaches to the problem involve clustering, based on simple low level features of distance in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Michael Rawson , Samuel Dooley , Mithun Bharadwaj , Rishabh Choudhary

The manifold of empirical mean values of statistical data ad infinitum has a geometric shape that depends on the probability measure that governs the generating model. Large deviation theory produces entropy functions that depend on both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Viswa Virinchi Muppirala , Hong Qian

Improvements in computational and experimental capabilities are rapidly increasing the amount of scientific data that is routinely generated. In applications that are constrained by memory and computational intensity, excessively large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Malik Hassanaly , Bruce A. Perry , Michael E. Mueller , Shashank Yellapantula

How does the topological space of science emerge? Inspired by the concept of maps of science, i.e. mapping scientific topics to a scientific space, we ask which topological structure a dynamical process of authors collaborating and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-01 Jan Moritz Joseph , Jens Christian Claussen

Information distance is a parameter-free similarity measure based on compression, used in pattern recognition, data mining, phylogeny, clustering, and classification. The notion of information distance is extended from pairs to multiples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-05-21 Paul M. B. Vitanyi

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising branch in modern applied mathematics. It extracts topological structures as features of a given space and uses these features to analyze digital data. Persistent homology, one of the central tools…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Chuan-Shen Hu

Observations on the past provide some hints about what will happen in the future, and this can be quantified using information theory. The ``predictive information'' defined in this way has connections to measures of complexity that have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 William Bialek , Naftali Tishby

Density map is an effective visualization technique for depicting the scalar field distribution in 2D space. Conventional methods for constructing density maps are mainly based on Euclidean distance, limiting their applicability in urban…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Zezheng Feng , Haotian Li , Wei Zeng , Shuang-Hua Yang , Huamin Qu

Features such as photon rings, jets, or hot. spots can leave particular topological signatures in a black hole image. As such, topological data analysis can be used to characterize images resulting from high resolution observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-11 Pierre Christian , Chi-kwan Chan , Anthony Hsu , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Iniyan Natarajan

In many problems in data mining and machine learning, data items that need to be clustered or classified are not points in a high-dimensional space, but are distributions (points on a high dimensional simplex). For distributions, natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sudipto Guha , Andrew McGregor , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Techniques from computational topology, in particular persistent homology, are becoming increasingly relevant for data analysis. Their stable metrics permit the use of many distance-based data analysis methods, such as multidimensional…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Bastian Rieck , Filip Sadlo , Heike Leitte

Complex networks are characterized by latent geometries induced by their topology or by the dynamics on the top of them. In the latter case, different network-driven processes induce distinct geometric features that can be captured by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-07 Giulia Bertagnolli , Manlio De Domenico